Improvement in cooking-stoves



E. D. WESTON.

YCo0kingStov.

No. 82,910. Patented om. 6. 1868.-

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ERASTUS D. WESTON, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 82,910, dated October 6, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVBS.

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Be it known that I, ERASrUS D. WESTON, of Taunton, in thecounty ofBristol,'and .State of Massachusetts,v I have invented a new andusefulmprovement in Cooking-Stoves; and do hereby declare the same .tobe fully 1 4described in the'following specification, and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which i Figure l is a longitudinal sectionof 'a stove provided with my' invention.

`Figure 2 is an under side view of its top plate and theV bottom of theair-Hue, the latter being shown as madel in sections, having theirjoints provided with iianges, and arranged both in vlongitudinal andtransverse directions relatively to the top plate. v l

i Figure 3 is a transversesectionof the top plate and airiue, suchsection being taken between the boiler receiving-holes.

Figure 4 is another such.- transverse section, it being taken throughthe vertical end iianges of the airtiue platea I i Figure 5 is avertical section taken `tl'irough'one sideof the' stove, oi: through'rone of its jambs. The nature of my invention consists in theconstructiono'f'the bottom of the'air-Hue'in sections, with jointsarranged transversely and longitudinally of the top plate, and providedwith overlapping flanges, in order that the lateraland longitudinalexpansion of the top plate of thestove may freely take place, withoutany danger of being so bound by the bottom plate or plates of theair-Hue as to be crackedor warped. My improvement also' avoidsjthedanger of cracking the bottom plate ofthe air-flue.

The nature of myA invention further co'nsists in the combination of endiianges with the air-flue protectionplates, when they are extendedpartially across the space underneatiithe top plate, such end flangesbeing to extend up to the top'plate, and, in connection therewith,extending the jambs of the stove up against the said endanges,'andto`the top plate, as well as against the protection-plates,and projecting th-e bottom and the top platebeyond the jambs and endplates ofthe body of' the stove; also, in constructing the said endiianges with notches or openings through them, to allow of the exit ofair from the air-space into the flue, overv the oven of the stove.

In the drawings, 'A denotes the body of the stove, and B the top plate,the latter beingprovided with boileropenings, a a, and a circumscribingiiange, b. The'said flange is extended downward from the plate-in manneras represented in the drawings, and is rebated, to receive the outer.edges of a series of sectional plates, ed e f Each of the sectionalplates, at one-or each end of it, is furnished with alange, L, to extendfrom it, and overlap the next adjacent sectional plate, so as to' breakthe joint between the two, such joints and flanges being arranged inmanner as represented. l i

' The sectional plates are also provided with other langes,.z, to extendIfrom' them to the top plate, and' against and inside of the anges b,which circumscribe the boiler-openinvs, and project down from the topplatefI Furthermore, the two front sectional plates have air-holes, Z,made through them, where they projectbeyond the front vertical end ofthe stove-body. The two lateral inner sectional plates Ahave ianges, mm, extended from them up to thetop plate, and against itscircuinscribing ange, such danges m m being provided with notches orair-exit passages, as shown at o o. l v

Flanges p p'extend. from the lower lsurfaces of the top plate aud thesectional plates, and against the jambs or body ot' the stove, suchjambs or body being extended in its rear, asshown at r s, up to the topplate, and against the end anges m m. v v

The above-described arrangement of thesectional plates, the end flangesm m, and the jambs, as set forth, saves the necessity and cost ofextending the sectional plates back beyond the middle ofthe rearboiler-opening. 'I am aware that it is not new to arrange an air-flueunderneath and against the top plate oi' a stove, and directly over themain smoke-ue, leading from the fireplace over the top of the oven;consequently, I make noel-aim thereto. v E i I What I claim is i Thebottom plate of the air-flue, as made of the ve sections c d efg,having-their joints arranged transversely and longitudinally of the topplate, and provided with overlapping flanges, z, as described, in orderthat the lateral and longitudinal expansion of the top plate may freelytake place.

' `I also claim, when the series of' partition-plates of the air-flue isextended partially acrossr the space under neath the top-plate, thecombination of' the end anges m lm with such plates, and the extensionof the jambs and end plates of the stove-body up against the saidflanges, the partition and top plates, and these latter (ivyith thepartition and top plates) beyond the jambs and end plates or body ofthestove, in manner as represented.

I also claim the said end flanges m m, as constructed with notches o1'openings o o, for the exit of air` from the air-flue into the smokeueover the oven.

. i ERASTUS l). WESTON.

Witnesses:

GEO. M. WQODWARD, ISAAC G. HOWLAND.

